from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)

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In the late 1970s, Dr, Herbert Benson, my erstwhile colleague and boss at what was then Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, co-authored an article for the Harvard Business Review featuring an arcane, but immediately obvious, relationship called the Yerkes-Dodson Law.

Devyn Carter, Malini Suchak, and Frans de Waal of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, is the first to document what the researchers call "spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees," a species that, until now, was thought to be "indifferent to the welfare" of others.